Maxtor has announced its third generation Maxline drive targeted at the growing nearline segment. The drive offers SATA II features and is available in capacities of 250 and 300 GByte.

Maxtor’s new drives integrate 16 MByte buffer and come in a three-disc-design and 250 and 300 GByte capacity. At 7200 rpm, offer respectable performance. According to the specs released by Maxtor, the average seek time of the drives is about 9.3 ms. The devices support SATA II which includes native command queuing (NCQ) to enable multi-threaded performance and allowing the drive to reorder and efficiently execute up to 32 commands for greater data throughput, staggered spin up, hot-plug and, asynchronous signal recovery.

Submitted by: Gobbles

Source: Tomshardware